Journalists Gallery

Bruce Ingram by John St Helier Lander

Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram OBE MC (1877 - 1963), journalist and newspaper editor. The grandson of the paper's founder, Herbert Ingram, he edited the Illustrated London News from 1900 to 1963, the longest tenure of any Fleet Street editor. Also edited The Sketch. Pictured in uniform - he served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War, took part in the Battles of the Somme and Cambrai.
1920

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

An Unconfirmed Report states - Rumours, H.M. Bateman, WW1

"An unconfirmed report states - Rumour." This Bateman cartoon warns the readers against passing on potentially important information during wartime to friends. The character at the beginning of the cartoon sees a carriage with its blinds down and decides to tell his friends, who then pass on the information to their friends until eventually one of the men sells his story to the newspapers. Similar to the Careless talk costs lives posters of the Second World War, this illustration encourages readers to keep any secrets to themselves lest they fall into the wrong hands. Date: 1914

© Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Edward Huskinson, editor of The Tatler magazine

A photograph of Edward (Teddy) Peter Huskinson (1877-1940), editor of The Tatler from 1908 to 1940. His career began as a political cartoonist of the Conservative party before he became a journalist. He was a director of the Illustrated London News Group (of which The Tatler was part) and described in his obituary as a first-class cricketer, a keen yachtsman and a popular member of the Bath Club. He was tragically killed in 1940 after becoming trapped between a train and platform at Savernake Station. Pictured here wearing fancy dress in The Sketch with his wife (and an unidentified other) after the Midnight Ball in July 1914, although the magazine calls him Edward Huskisson. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans